We learned it’s important to incorporate healthy living into our lifestyle. It isn’t a “sometimes we do healthy living” scenario—it is an ongoing lifestyle. Getting healthy takes focus. Staying healthy takes focus. It should come second nature as we go about our day, not something that is done for a hot minute in life and then slowly fades away. That only leaves us a bit self-defeated and in a situation where we’re not hitting our health goals.
I found it’s easiest to incorporate new healthy behaviors into your life when you have a one-page template that can be adjusted for whatever you are currently working on. By adding it into a simple one-page template, you can adjust as you go. You can reference the template as many times as needed until the habit or activity simply becomes part of your lifestyle or is no longer necessary depending on what you are working to heal. This is where dieting falls radically short. Dieting is a great example of something that you can easily fall off the wagon—and for many people, possibly never get back on. A one-page cheat sheet or template helps you stay on track with your healthy living activities.
- What. A one-page template should incorporate your goals (even if it’s a brief 2-3 sentence highlight). It should incorporate your “to do” items throughout the day including early rise tasks, morning activities, breakfast, lunch, afternoon activities, dinner, and your evening / night-time routine.
- Where. I hang one in my bathroom so it’s easy to see first thing after waking and in the evening before bed. There is also a copy at my work desk and in my car believe it or not.
- When. You can create a daily mantra anytime throughout your healing journey, but I recommend getting it started sooner than later. Updates can be made as you adjust your healing journey. Mine has been updated countless times. I’ve discovered that many lifestyle changes I’ve incorporated simply become my lifestyle, as I make room for new ones.
- Why. It helps you stay the course and keeps you motivated.
- Who. This one-page template is for you based on your personal health goals. Once family or friends see the power in it, they may create their own version that suits their own personal health needs.
- How. Create the template, then look at it throughout the day to make sure you are remembering to do all the things.
Categories can include countless health-related items but I like to group them into physical, emotional, and spiritual. These help provide a high-level framework that you can build within depending on what you want to focus on as it relates to your personal healing (or staying healthy) journey.
Sprinkled within the above categories, I have found the following items to be consistently helpful in my journey. You may want to consider using these as a starting point as you build your personal template:
- Daily Affirmations. I keep these on every template and repeat them in the morning after waking and right before going to sleep.
- Dental Activities. i.e., Tongue scraping, oil pulling, brushing (hopefully everyone already does this one automatically), etc.
- Circadian Reset. Getting sun on my face first thing in the day (i.e., taking a 15-20 minute walk before 8:00am.)
- Supplements needed throughout the day if necessary (breakfast, lunch, dinner, etc.)
- Shower Mantra (dry brush, lymph node pump, etc.)
- Grounding whenever it works throughout the day if possible.
- Alkaline boosters (i.e., wheat grass shots 1-2x / day)
- Night-time routines such as casor oil packs, a facial / hair routine with clean products, etc.
- Pray
- Gratitude journal
There is no wrong way to do this—the details of my day may look entirely different from the details throughout yours. The key is to personalize it in a way that you can be consistent and successful.
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